Committee on Public Information

This article is part of the Propaganda Portal project of Spinwatch.

People

• Edward Bernays | George Creel Chairman| Associate Chairmen Carl Byoir and Harvey J. O'Higgins | Walter Lippmann

Resources

Profiles

• Sourcewatch Committee on Public Information
• Wikipedia Committee on Public Information

Research resources

• The National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, Records of the Committee on Public Information (Record Group 63) 1917-21 152 cu. ft.

Publications

• Blakey, George T: Historians on the Homefront: American Propagandists for the Great War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky (1970), ISBN 0-8131-1236-2.
• Creel, George (1947). Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
• George Creel: How We Advertised America: The First Telling of the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information That Carried the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Pub. Co. (January 2008), ISBN 0548820929 (10), ISBN 978-0548820926 (13).
• Bruce Pinkleton 'The Campaign of the Committee on Public Information: Its Contributions to the History and Evolution of Public Relations', Journal of Public Relations Research, Vol. 6, 1994.
• Stephen Vaughn Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information (Supplementary volumes to the Papers of Woodrow Wilson), Univ of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1980